International perspectives on racial and ethnic mixedness and mixing / / edited by Rosalind Edwards ... [et al.]

• Pubblicazione: Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2012; Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2012
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (209 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.8
• Soggetto topico: Multiculturalism; Multiracial people; Race; Ethnic groups
• Altri autori: EdwardsRosalind
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Notes on Contributors; 1 Introduction: Approaches to racial and ethnic mixedness and mixing; 2 Multiraciality and census classification in global perspective; 3 Mixed race across time and place: Contrasting Australia with the UK; 4 From 'Draughtboard Alley' to 'Brown Britain': The 'ordinariness' of racial mixing and mixedness in British society; 5 When ethnicity became an important family issue: The case of Slovenian Istria; 6 Constructing multiraciality in US families and neighbourhoods ; 7 Finding value on a council estate: Voices of white mothers with mixed-race children in St Anns, Nottingham8 A descriptive account of those self-identifying as of mixed ethnicity in Great Britain; 9 'Mixed-race' young people's differential responses to misrecognition in Britain; 10 How national context shapes international comparison of 'mixed' people: The example of German, French and British large-scale survey datasets; 11 Not the same difference: Notes on mixed-race methodologies; 12 Situating mixed race politics; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: People from a 'mixed' or 'inter' racial and ethnic background, and people partnering and parenting across different racial and ethnic backgrounds, are of increasing political, public and intellectual interest internationally. Contributors to this interdisciplinary collection interrogate notions of mixedness and mixing, and challenge stereotypical assumptions. They advance debates in the field through illuminating the complexity of specific historical trajectories, administrative practices and lived experience.Recurrent themes woven throughout the chapters include:<
• Titolo autorizzato: International perspectives on racial and ethnic mixedness and mixing
• ISBN: 1-136-30928-4; 1-280-77687-0; 9786613687265; 0-203-11834-0; 1-136-30929-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910955142703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Relationships and Resources